Experiential Visual Designer

What You'll Do8

• Concept and design creative for external events: conference booths, activations, signage, step-and-repeats, digital screens, presentation decks, and badges.
• Take swag and merchandise from first concept through production-ready vendor files.
• Build campaign collateral that extends each event, including invitations, onsite print, and leave-behinds.
• Design digital promo pieces such as splash pages and social posts that drive attendance.
• Translate event concepts and campaign themes into shippable design alongside the Events and Marketing teams.
• Prepare and hand off vendor-ready files with specs, print files, dielines, and proofs, and work directly with fabricators and printers when questions come up.
• Run your own queue across concurrent events, flag tradeoffs, and set priorities against fixed event dates.
• Keep every physical expression of the brand recognizable as Plaid while adapting to venue, material, and format limits.

Requirements9

• 7+ years in graphic design, including direct work on print and physical or experiential projects.
• A portfolio that shows event or experiential output such as booths, activations, swag, signage, or campaign collateral.
• Typography, layout, and color judgment that holds at booth scale and at sticker scale.
• Hands-on experience with print vendors, fabricators, and production specs such as bleed, dielines, materials, and build or install constraints.
• Expert command of Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator in particular.
• Comfort with AI tools including ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney.
• Ability to work inside an established brand system and to push new elements when the moment calls for it.
• A record of hitting fixed event dates and turning work around fast without dropping quality.
• A track record of working well both independently and on a team.

Preferred Qualifications5

• Booth, trade show exhibit, or event environment design
• 3D or mockup tools for visualizing booths and event spaces
• A recurring calendar of multiple events or campaigns, ideally on an in-house marketing or events team or at an agency
• Motion design or AI and automation tooling
• Interest in fintech, technology, or the future of financial services

Who Should Apply

A print-savvy visual designer with seven or more years of graphic design work and a portfolio full of booths, signage, and swag will settle in fast here. The role suits someone who reads a dieline, talks with fabricators without hesitation, and keeps several events moving at once.

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